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A Portuguese fleet becomes the object of conflict between Roman gods.

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“This, following, saith: ‘O son! I ever held coolth of my sorrows and the sweet relief of mine already weary wayworn eld so soon to sink in glooms of need and grief; why leave me thus to want and woe compel’d? Why fly my love, fond child? whose days so brief shall set in darkness, and in briny grave shalt feed the fishes of the greedy wave.

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